Restoring Database

[MackieRocks]

Last night, just prior to a show, I indexed some new songs and rebuilt the database. To my horror, a bunch of my songs disappeared. What did I do wrong and how do I go about restoring the database to the previous version prior to my indexing new songs? All my KMA files are on a 1Tb external harddrive. I'm freaking out!!!

[admin]

Which database Song (sounds like this one) or Singers?

Which version of Hoster?

Have you checked the Import Songs menu > Build Database dialog's "Indexed Folders" list? Some of our Beta testers reported their list was gone (during a Beta version).

[MackieRocks]

Songs database.

V5.05

I don't understand the last question.

[Roy Dennis]

First off did you have your external hard drive attached when you rebuilt the database ? if not then this is why you lost the songs.
Rebuild database with it attached.
If you did have it attached then check the following:

From the "Import Songs" Tab select "Build Database"
In the list of folders window below the Add Folders button, check that all the folders containing your music are listed especially look for the folder that contains these missing files.
If it has gone missing use the Add folder button to replace it, if you find a missing folder it should Add the files to the existing database automatically if on checking it hasn't rebuild the database.

[Roy Dennis]

An alternative thing you can try is to restore the previous database by opening your C:/MTU/Hoster folder, find the songs.mdb and delete it, next find the songs_backup.mdb right click it and select rename, then rename it songs.mdb
This should restore to what you had before your last rebuild point providing you have not rebuilt the database a second time since this problem happened.

[MackieRocks]

I noticed that when I plug my external harddrive to my backup laptop, all the songs are there. Should I copy the songs database (songs.mdb) from my backup machine to my primary? Will that fix my problem? H-E-L-P!!!!